Denali

Here we are on our trip to Denali State Park. We arrived in Anchorage on Tuesday night around midnight (2:00am Utah Time). After getting a rental car, we made it to sleep around 4:30am MST. The next day we met up with Jimmy and Mikensi and caravaned the 4 and a half hours to Denali Park. The night before the bus tour, we stayed at the Salmon Bake. It was kind of like a nice scout camp. Tom and Laurel's "Cabin" had a bathroom and an air conditioner in the window. The other 2 "units" were just like tens with plywood walls and carpet floors with two double beds in each one.

Here I am at a view point along the road that goes into the park. It's one road in and one road out. The buses take you a ways into the park so you can see Mount McKinley (which was covered in cloud the day we went there) and then they turn around and head back.

We saw several Grizzly Bears... (double-click to enlarge the image)


this is a picture of 3 wolves that took down a caribou and were snacking in front of us... well along way away from us. They didn't even share - how rude! Of course, Amy just said, "How gross!!" (double-click to enlarge the image)



These are our luxury buses. I think they came from a local school district and were recycled or something. And I wonder why my back hurts now :)